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My friend Jacob is an Inuvialuit Polar Bear guide and lives in Tuktyaktuk. Regulations require they conduct their hunts with sleds and dogs rather than snow machines. He's been killing polar bears with a .270 since he was a boy.
About 25 years ago a lawyer from LA came for one of his hunts, and threw a fit at the far camp because he was being backed up by only a .270, and not a dangerous game rifle. He said he wanted his money back and wanted to return to land in the morning.
After sleeping on it he apologized in the morning, admitting he had .0001% of the experience Jacob had, and saying he wanted to continue the hunt. He got a monster male the next day. When he left he presented Jacob with his H&H double rifle. He has traveled to Tuk and killed a polar bear every year since the first.
The $20,000 H&H sits in Jacob's gun cabinet, and he still carries his .270.
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